Jay K.

One Friday morning I skipped breakfast and headed off to work. By lunchtime I still felt “full” even though I did not have breakfast. By about 2:30 I was starting to feel a bit nauseous and warm. I made it to the men’s room where started sweating heavily and became very very ill. By three pm, I told my supervisor I really needed to get home. This is where my story gets a little foggy.

I remember getting to my car and getting sick again and that is it until Tuesday. I do not remember the drive home, the ambulance ride to the ER, or the 7 hour surgery that followed.

It seems that my colon had ruptured and had folded over on itself. (Sepsis and Perforated Bowel) meaning the section of large intestine normally on the left side was now closer to my right side. The surgeon had removed two sections of my large intestine.

Having severe sepsis and a 104.1 temperature was causing my kidneys and heart to fail. As I wrote earlier, it was Tuesday night before I realized where I was and what had happened. I continued with antibiotics, morphine, medications for my heart and kidneys and multiple drains, tubes, and oxygen. my total hospital stay was 13 days.

Oct 13th will be two years since my surgery and since then I have had a colostomy reversal, a hernia, a hernia repair with mesh/ I had a
problem with the colostomy reversal site leading to another week long stay with 104 temp with the cause being “sepsis.” Since my body is rejecting the mesh and causing me not to completely heal along with my kidneys being damaged from the severe sepsis and and high fevers, I will have the mesh removed, this procedure should this procedure should take place in August.

I have mixed feelings about this surgery but It is necessary.
Since this is a sepsis site and not a medical history site, I will end with the thought of my wife and family hearing the surgeon tell them how very sick I am/was and that now we just wait to see if he wakes up,
something he made very clear may not happen. Sepsis did not take me, but,  it will and has changed me and my family